Lightning is bitcoin, Liquid is the closest shitcoin there is to bitcoin. Liquid is useful as a bitcoin-denominated protyping layer mainly because of the hybrid federated custody model. CashU and Fedi ecash protocols are really variants on custodial lightning wallets, only the centralized aspect of it does not have accounts. CashU is more like WoS, where Fedi is more like Phoenix. Eventually we will have a noncustodial ecash token that is directly redeemable for bitcoin on L1, but for now, there are tradeoffs.
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> hybrid federated custody
That's a hoax, it's Shroedinger's node, key distribution can't be verified and there's still centralized infrastructure
> Eventually we will have a noncustodial ecash token that is directly redeemable for bitcoin on L1
lol no... thats not how any of this works... anyone claiming that can be done is selling a perpetual motion machine, the physics of the chain are immutable.
Lightning as the only real L2 is how it is because it recognizes this, its just re-usable on chain transactions.